POST Arnhem
Ada Ada Ada, Morehshin Allahyari, Jake Elwes, Beverley Hood, Rodell Warner
Title: Embodied Encryption
Artists: Ada Ada Ada, Morehshin Allahyari, Jake Elwes, Beverley Hood, Rodell Warner
Curator: Lieke Wouters
Date: 13.09.2025 – 14.12.2025
Opening: 12.09.2025, 20:00- Sign up here
Venue: Arnhem
Artificial intelligence is having a growing impact on our daily lives, visible as well as invisible. Despite a mostly positive reception, there are also sceptical voices. This is partly because AI reflects the prevailing norms and stereotypes of the society in which it is produced. For example, AI has a very limited understanding of identity and marginalised bodies. Are bodies that fall outside the norm quietly erased by automation? What happens in the space in-between that is created when a machine cannot interpret an identity?
The exhibition Embodied Encryption shows how bodily freedom and justice are possible for oppressed groups without taking artificial intelligence out of the equation. The artists in the exhibition challenge or collaborate with AI systems to represent marginalised identities. They subvert ingrained gender constructions and challenge colonial ways of seeing. Bodily vulnerability, anti-colonial depictions of the past, and subversive joy are addressed in Embodied Encryption. The work in the exhibition shows feminist, queer and anti-colonial perspectives on identity, despite and thanks to AI.